From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 31 09:20:04 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA23370 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 31 Aug 1996 09:20:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gluon.mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de (gluon.mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de [134.147.160.165]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA23350 for ; Sat, 31 Aug 1996 09:20:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from roberte@localhost) by gluon.mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de (8.6.12/8.6.12) id SAA28042; Sat, 31 Aug 1996 18:20:14 +0200 From: Robert Eckardt Message-Id: <199608311620.SAA28042@gluon.mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> Subject: Re: Unremovable directories In-Reply-To: <199608311151.NAA29998@odie.physik2.uni-rostock.de> from Lars Koeller at "31. Aug. 96 13:51:15" To: Lars_Koeller@odie.physik2.uni-rostock.de (Lars Koeller) Date: Sat, 31 Aug 1996 18:20:14 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: metcalf@imagine.com, freebsd-questions@freefall.freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL25 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > I was recently doing some system maintenance when I accidentally > > corrupted a directory entry. > > Apparently some of the symbolic links I was making caused the > > corruption. Now when I perform > > the following: > > > > rm -rf unremovable/ > > > > I get > > > > rm: unremovable/: Directory not empty > > > > The directory is owned by root and I am performing the rm command as > > root. I remember having had this problem with rm on FreeBSD-2.0.5 rm -rf unremovable/ gave always 'Directory not empty' whereas 'rm -rf unremovable', 'rmdir unremovable', and 'rmdir unremovable/' worked fine. Does this apply to you ? Robert -- Robert Eckardt ( Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum, Inst.f.Theor.Physik, NB6/169 ) Universitaetsstrasse 150, D-44780 Bochum, Germany ----X---8---- Telefon: +49 234 700-3709, Telefax: +49 234 7094-574 8 E-Mail: RobertE@MEP.Ruhr-Uni-Bochum.de --------8---- URL: http://WWW.MEP.Ruhr-Uni-Bochum.de/~roberte >>> To be successful one needs friends, <<< >>> To be very successful one needs enemies. <<<